Pink can’t really be the colour of Oman’s mountains – but it has to be the colour of dreams of those mountains. Years ago, it needed an official letter – beautifully embossed – from the army headquarters in Bait al Falaj to create the dream. Today – a chance to wander through the rose fields is less difficult to obtain; a head for heights and sensible road driving .

Oman Today published an article this month by me on the extraordinary rose water that those fields of Pink can produce – read it and next time you eat some Halwa remember the effort that went into its creation.